Jazz Articles about Eyal Maoz

Benjamin Boone: Caught in the Rhythm

by Paul Rauch
September 28, 2023

The connection between poetry and jazz music is a delicate one. It has been documented so infrequently, in performance and recordings, that one still conjures the flicker of an image of Jack Kerouac reading in some dark Greenwich Village cafe with Steve Allen or Zoot Sims, surrounded by beret-wearing, cappuccino-sipping beatniks. The work of Fresno-based saxophonist Benjamin Boone has assisted in widening that view through four albums recorded for the Origin Records label, including the fourth, Caught in the Rhythm ...

Magnet Animals: Fake Dudes

by Glenn Astarita
October 18, 2021

Its press release refers to this band as a “combustible beat-skronk" unit for its follow-up to the 2016 Butterfly Killer album, where guitarist Todd Clouser iterates his poetry under the semblance of a rebel using a small megaphone. It seems as if he could be on a corner somewhere in Greenwich Village, NYC., to forewarn the willing populace of dour sociopolitical issues, along with oddball humor and sober expressionism. Once again, Clouser and guitarist Eyal Maoz (who played with Lou ...

Eyal Maoz - Asaf Sirkis: The Lie Detectors Part III - Secret Unit

by Glenn Astarita
March 5, 2019

New York-based guitarist Eyal Maoz (John Zorn, Lou Reed) and London-based drummer Asaf Sirkis (Markus Reuter, Mark Wingfield) are childhood friends, hailing from Rehovot, Israel. Although each musician is quite busy via numerous projects on a global scale, they've managed to produce three duo albums. On Part III, the musicians seemingly operate with the force of a supercharged V8 engine. Maoz has aligned with composer, producer and saxophonist John Zorn's radical Jewish culture underpinnings, namely on Tzadik Records ...

Eyal Maoz - Asaf Sirkis: Elementary Dialogues

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 12, 2011

Possiede l'energia del buon vecchio rock, quello verace e ruspante, dove l'esibizione è momento anche di ricerca, di sperimentazione di nuove sonorità e di nuove strategie esecutive. E vi è una spiccata propensione all'improvvisazione, alle continue invenzioni, all'ascolto reciproco per rilanciare sollecitazioni e impulsi ricevuti e creare prospettive diverse all'esecuzione. Questa miscela diventa esplosiva e incendia Elementary Dialogues, album registrato negli Eastcote Studios di Londra nel gennaio 2006 e opportunamente stampato ora dalla Ayler Records. Cresciuti nella stessa città in ...

Eyal Maoz & Edom: Hope and Destruction

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 18, 2009

Eyal Maoz appartiene alla rigogliosa fioritura di musicisti (e non solo) prodotta negli ultimi dieci anni dal fertile “melting pot" israeliano. Come molti di loro ha studiato negli Stati Uniti, dove attualmente vive parte dell'anno. Maoz si è inizialmente affermato alla guida del Lemon Juice Quartet (con il trombettista Avishai Cohen, il bassista Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz e il batterista Kevin Zubek, tutti studenti israeliani della Berklee School of Music), con cui si è esibito anche in Israele e negli Stati ...

Eyal Maoz's Edom: Hope and Destruction

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 13, 2009

The second release of New York-based Israeli guitarist Eyal Maoz alt-klezmer quartet Edom is a schizophrenic one. On one hand, Maoz faithfully follows Tzadik founder John Zorn's hybridized post-modern pastiche of klezmer and Jewish musical traditions, and musical references that are typical of the label's Radical Jewish Culture series. This is most audible in the manner that Maoz adopts the angst and skronk style of Zorn's leading guitarist in his Jewish-related projects, Marc Ribot. On the other hand, this release ...

Eyal Maoz / Asaf Sirkis: Elementary Dialogues

by Glenn Astarita
October 3, 2009

Tzadik recording artist/guitarist Eyal Maoz teams with U.K.-based drummer/leader of The Inner Noise, Asaf Sirkis. Here, the duo projects style, substance and gobs of variety on these sprightly duets for the avant-garde Swedish record label, Ayler Records. Elementary Dialogues is an album built on cunning improvisation, where the instrumentalists delve into laidback funk-rock, noise-shaping maneuvers and quirky deviations, among many other elements.

Maoz's odd-phrasings and Jimi Hendrix-like cosmic meltdowns are abetted by his fierce soloing escapades in line with Sirkis' ...